I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy.

I write, but I also act.